SuccessFactors Onboarding 1H 2025 , release provides exciting innovations across Sap SuccessFactors Onboarding 1H 2025 that can help you transform your HR operations, Increase employee engagement, and deliver results. Don’t miss out on all the great innovations and enhancements SuccessFactors Onboarding 1H 2025.
1H – 2025 Release Schedule
| Release | Preview | Production |
| 1H 2025 | 14th April 2025 | 16 – 18th May 2025 |
Here are a few key updates you should consider for Sap SuccessFactors Onboarding 1H 2025.
1.Spotlight Access for Onboarding New Hires
New hires can now access and personalize their Public Profile. This option is available from the user profile icon that is displayed on the top-right corner of the home page.
Note: Ensure that Spotlight as part of Public Profile is available in your system.
Here’s a screenshot of the Public Profile option available from the drop-down:
Selecting this option redirects new hires to the Profile Preview (the left pane of Public Profile), allowing them to view and edit their profile. While this page provides a quick overview of the users essential details, it also allows them to:
- Edit their profile picture
- Edit their profile preview, that includes name pronunciation and self-description
On selecting Spotlight, the right pane presents dynamic information from where new hires can upload their video in the About Me Video card. Other Spotlight cards are displayed depending on prerequisites met after day one of their employment. For more information about the prerequisites, see the Spotlight of the Latest People Profile topic in the Related Information section.
Here’s how the Public Profile looks:
Note: New hires can’t access their Full Profile from the Spotlight page.
These enhancements allow new hires to boost self-branding by making their information available to HR managers and other responsible users.
Technical Details
| Reference Number | OBX-35238 |
| Product | Onboarding |
| Module | Onboarding |
| Feature | Onboarding |
| Action | Info only |
| Enablement | Automatically on |
| Lifecycle | General Availability |
| Type | Changed |
| Major or Minor | Minor |
| Business Process Variant | Hire to Retire |
| Software Version | 1H 2025 |
2.Simplified Print Forms Service Credentialing and Provisioning
You can now experience a more efficient process for Print Forms Service (PFS) generation in SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding.
With the PFS transition to SAP BTP Cloud Foundry environment, the following enhancements are made in the PFS credentialing and provisioning services:
- P-User ID is no longer required to enable PFS, removing the need to renew its password every six months.
- Provisioning for PFS tenants is automated, removing the need for manual requests.
After the PFS transition to SAP BTP Cloud Foundry environment, you can only use SAP SuccessFactors Onboarding to manage document templates. The PFS user interface won’t be available to access PFS.
Configuration Requirements
The Valid as Of date in the Technical Details table corresponds to the availability of code changes in your production environment. However, the actual transition is planned in the preview environment in a phased manner starting from 5 May, 2025. SuccessFactors Onboarding 1H 2025.
Technical Details
| Reference Number | OBX-29888 |
| Product | Onboarding |
| Module | Onboarding |
| Feature | Onboarding |
| Action | Info only |
| Enablement | Automatically on |
| Lifecycle | General Availability |
| Type | Changed |
| Major or Minor | Minor |
| Business Process Variant | Hire to Retire |
| Software Version | 1H 2025 |
3.Security Enhancement for Custom Task MDF Objects
Beginning with the 1H 2025 release, securing MDF objects is now mandatory and all unsecured objects throw errors.
The security update raises an error if the top object isn’t secured. This change impacts both predefined and custom objects. This means that you must secure new custom task MDF objects and update existing custom task MDF objects. Customers who created a custom task object before 1H 2025 must update the Secured field to No. After the 1H 2025 release, existing custom tasks won’t function properly until you secure the MDF object.
This enhancement improves system security.
What’s Changed
Currently, MDF objects must be secured. MDF objects that aren’t secured trigger errors. Customers with existing custom tasks must update their custom task MDF objects and secure them.
Previously, it wasn’t mandatory to secure MDF objects.
Technical Details
| Reference Number | MDF-89562 |
| Product | Onboarding Platform |
| Module | Onboarding |
| Feature | Programs Metadata Framework |
| Action | Required |
| Enablement | Automatically on |
| Lifecycle | General Availability |
| Type | Changed |
| Major or Minor | Major |
| Software Version | 1H 2025 |
4.Restart Compliance Process
As an administrator, you can now restart the compliance process for new hires individually. This option allows you to update changes in the compliance forms based on specific business requirements.
The compliance process can be restarted using the Restart Compliance Process option, available only from the Admin Center. > Manage Data page.
You can now restart the compliance process for only one new hire at a time. For more information, refer to the Restarting Compliance Process topic of the Relation Information section.
You can use the Restart Compliance Process option to address the following scenarios:
- Update a new hire’s data after completing the compliance process.
- Include any compliance forms that weren’t assigned when the compliance process was initiated.
- Include new versions of the compliance forms after completing the compliance process.
- Re-trigger the compliance process if an issue arises.
- Trigger the compliance process if you missed triggering during the initial onboarding process.
Note
- The Restart Compliance Process functionality supports all compliance forms except Form I-9. The compliance process for Form I-9 can be restarted using the Restart Onboarding and Form I-9 Correct Data functions.
- Restarting the compliance process doesn’t delete the previously signed compliance forms. All the signed compliance forms will still be available in New Hire Details Actions Onboarding Documents.
Role-Based Permission Prerequisites
- Ensure you have the necessary permissions to initiate compliance for onboarding. For more information, refer to Setting Up Compliance for Onboarding topic in the Related Information section.
- Ensure you have enabled View and Edit permissions for Admin Centre Manage Permission Roles <Permission Role> Administrator Permissions Onboarding or Offboarding Admin Object Permissions Restart Compliance Process.
Technical Details
| Reference Number | OBX-35746 |
| Product | Onboarding |
| Module | Onboarding |
| Feature | Compliance Forms |
| Action | Info only |
| Enablement | Automatically on |
| Lifecycle | General Availability |
| Type | New |
| Major or Minor | Minor |
| Business Process Variant | Hire to Retire |
| Software Version | 1H 2025 |
5.Change in Legal Entity Transfer Flow
An employee transferred from one legal entity to another within the organization using Legal Entity Transfer can now begin their new employment on the Start Date only after completion of Manage Pending Hire.
Using this feature, employees who are transferred on legal entity transfer are prohibited from being available in downstream integrations too soon, thereby mitigating unwarranted custom intervention.
What’s Changed
Employees who are transferred on Legal Entity Transfer can’t begin their new employment on the day of their employment unless Manage Pending Hire is completed.
Previously, employees transferred on Legal Entity Transfer could begin their employment on the Start Date, even before completion of Manage Pending Hire.
Technical Details
| Reference Number | OBX-36620 |
| Product | Onboarding |
| Module | Onboarding |
| Feature | Onboarding |
| Action | Info only |
| Enablement | Automatically on |
| Lifecycle | General Availability |
| Type | Changed |
| Major or Minor | Minor |
| Business Process Variant | Not Applicable |
| Software Version | 1H 2025 |
Thanks & Regards,
Anipe Abraham,
Sr. #SAP #SuccessFactors Consultant | Employee Central | Employee Central Payroll | Recruitment Management l Onboarding | PMGM | Sap Hcm | Corporate Trainer.
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